Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya

and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

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previously you all had ventured into the

nation of calder to find the origins of

these mysterious crystals that seem to

be housing some sort of souls within

them

you guys have traveled to the small town

of blackpool deep within a swamp

find that the warehouse that these

crystals had originally come from or at

least where martin olma had originally

found them

was reduced to ash

and after a little bit of investigating

flynn had talked to an older dwarven man

who seemed to know things about the

future be a bit of a fortune teller and

gave flynn a bit of a clue of where he

could find his next step on his journey

after going to the local tavern and

finding out a little bit more about

where these crystals might be or or

where the clues might lead them they

spent the night in blackpool and set out

early the next morning into the swamp

they you guys had traveled for a little

bit and um

after

looking around looking for this this

secondary warehouse that you guys had

heard that there might be clues in um

shraya and march spotted a hooded figure

dashing alongside them a couple hundred

feet out

and sort of took note of that before you

guys came across this this black staff

that was perched directly into the mud

in front of you guys

it had five halos

these golden rings around the staff that

upon approaching it

burned a little bit within your minds

and the gold rings dropped into the mud

and the mud began to bubble and boil and

produce these five

mud creatures who

each of you recognized a few of them

some of them with drow and elvin and

human visage

after defeating these monsters and sort

of wondering what was going on you guys

saw that same hooded figure

a couple hundred feet in front of you

and as you guys approached the hood

dropped out as if nothing was even

wearing the hood in in the first place

and you guys heard a

a voice coming from a tree behind you as

large athletic-looking half-orc stepped

out from behind the tree and greeted you

all um

telling you that he was there to

take you in either dead or alive to

hollow guard

but his main mission is to

get these crystals which he told you

house the souls of his teammates he told

you guys that um

him and his team

went on a mission to a

caldurian outpost to

capture a lieutenant in the army and

questioned him about his father a

locksmith

and after he he told you about that he

told you about his team how some of them

were comprised of members of hollowguard

and some of them were sort of this

outside force that had come in to help

these cultists these magic users who he

tells you

prayed to a red wolf

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so with that he is sitting there on this

this uh tree stump that he sort of

apparated into place with some um with

some ember dust um that was in his

pocket and as he's sitting there

continuing the conversation um

he uh he looks to you guys and he

says so

i will

make this easy on all of you

you all have two options

i could either

take you all in alive and have

some hollow guard lackeys come back and

clean up the rest of this mess or

i could kill you all right here and

collect any remaining evidence that's

housed in that warehouse over yonder and

along with any other magical

accoutrement that those banuk might have

been hoarding

but it's your choice so i i just ask

that you make it quick i would i would

very much like to get back to my house

and feed my pets and and water my peace

lilies what do you get out of this trek

what's your reasoning for

engaging with not only this violence

but

with

this unholy conspiracy

i get

if i can be quite frank an obscene

amount of gold

so grades your motivation

i would say that is correct

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you're just here to clean up the mess

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yes and hopefully return the souls of

the the people who i was bound to on

this mission

oh right

but your mission's not complete like

shouldn't you just complete your mission

well as far as i see it we cannot

complete our mission without the

remaining members of my team and i would

very much enjoy uh finishing this with

the people who i started it with

well there are some people out in the

world that are still working on your

mission you might want to go find them

not these people these people all uh

have very specific skill sets

that uh complement my own

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i think we might have met some of them

really

that's what i'm saying

they're already out so

it doesn't really seem like you need us

well i might not need you

but um those those pretty little gems

that you are holding on to um those

those i am

keen to get back

right

i can sort of see where this

conversation is going

i will tell you this either you all can

get down on your knees and put your

hands behind your heads and i will come

by and and tie you all up one by one and

i promise that the i will be gentle

and you all will be restrained and come

with me or

in about 20 seconds i am going to attack

those are your two options

what about a third option where we

come with you willingly and you don't

have to tie us up

15 seconds

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i don't want to go with you and i also

don't want to die i can assure you

no one is dying today i'm going to get

my staff out 10 seconds can i look

around

really quick again and see if i can spot

anyone else here is it just this guy

uh make a perception check

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huh halfway

wow

[Laughter]

um looking around you you don't see

anything um you think you might hear

something over your uh left shoulder um

but it could just be the animals of the

the swamp you sort of hear a croak

you hear something moving in the trees

off to your right but it could just be

birds um

um um okay

i was gonna say did you have some flynn

you want to follow up with no i have no

idea what to do

okay uh i just want to insight check him

if i can or i want to i just want to

know

like is he

mentally

rare

yeah make an insight check okay

while he's doing that um

who oh yeah that's a good question

crystals march and i march and i went to

yeah does march still have that i do

that's a 23 on the inside inside check

he seems to be very

candid with you um

he seems to be fully present um he's he

it just seems like with that high of a

role it seems like he's been doing this

for a while and he's sort of kind of

confident with himself and he knows you

know how these things usually go

and he is like just full-on apathetic to

whatever

kind of uh

havoc he leaves in his wake as he goes

about this business oh yeah no no

emotional attachment whatsoever yeah

okay okay

well and i uh i'll look to my comrades

if it's a fight you're looking for

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you'll get one hell of one

i'm sneaking my way backwards towards

march okay i'm trying to

yeah

spread out

because i am in the front of this fight

because he came up behind us

so i am just like

casually

walking backwards

quietly i am attempting to be sneaky

about it okay uh make a stealth check

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can i assist her by like

21. being very aggressive with what i

just said by like

trying to trying to get trying to get

some eye to eye yeah um so with that 21

okay look i'm gonna have you make an

intimidation check

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that is

uh 22. 22. nice um

he uh he looks at you like you're the

man to talk to uh like you're the one

who's sort of taken the reins of this

group he's sort of addressing you um and

so he's he's fully locked onto you as oh

my you sneak back behind march

hey march march march all right all

right

come here yeah

yeah

maybe

we should break the crystal

maybe a soul comes out and it distracts

him or maybe the soul dies

either way

who knows and it's probably gonna help

us the soul will come out and

probably recognize him and attempt to

attack us don't you remember what

happened the last time a soul came out

yeah yeah yeah yeah but but also what

happened is

then they came like the the party got

together and then they left us alone

so maybe that'll happen again you want

me to break open a crystal

i mean there's no body for it to go in

right i mean

maybe if you break it and throw it it

can go in humid alive bodies can't it um

hopefully it doesn't try and all right

well um just breaking uh

hate to do this i hate to make it

difficult on you all

as he like sort of puts his hands on his

knees and sort of pushes himself up off

of the uh

the stump there he goes all right and he

sort of twists his torso around sort of

limbers up and he sort of brings one of

his legs up and brings one of his knees

up and uh

all right

and he reaches into one of the pouches

on his belt

and he takes out a coin

and he tosses the coin up in the air

with a little ding

as it flips

end over end into the air and lands

right in the middle of your group and

that is where i'm going to have everyone

oh my god guys this is stupid

this is a bad thing

um what does that bring your total

23. 23.

nice

hey only is that a 23. um

what did you add to that

oh that's your dexterity

modifier uh march what is your

initiative

sixteen

i rolled low young gaelic

oh [ __ ] yeah that's a three oh buddy

flynn uh i got an eight

and try

four

four okay it was the same one i rolled

last night

crashing it

with that um

he is sort of just standing

about let's see

okay like he is

about 25 feet away from you

okay as this coin sort of drops in the

center of your group um everyone i'm

gonna have you all make a uh

charisma saving throw

oh boy is anyone really good at this not

my strong suit

i am charisma yeah

that's a dirty 20.

okay i think i've rolled above a five so

far that's 15.

i know it's 15 for all

that's 19 for march

yeah

i got a three

wow that's a nine for me

okay so um shraya and

flynn um

you all you um you two feel sort of the

this coin that was dropped in the middle

of your group um sort of pulse as you

and shraya are flung into the air just

like a coin being tossed you guys are

tossed into the air end over end 20 feet

as you guys then drop back down and take

it i don't know

a little bit of damage on your way a

little bit right it's like a tiny bit

just it's not it's

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um so flynn and shrey you guys both take

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six points of bludgeoning damage

quick quick question is is this fall

natural like or magical in nature

because couldn't i theoretically just if

i'm up in the air like

breaks my fault this is a a magical

fall this is a magical effect um so you

are you are completely

discombobulated as you are flung up into

the air you don't know which way is up

as you both take six points of damage

oh snap

okay

oma

what would you like to do

as you just saw your your companions

flung up into the air

i let out a big scream

um and i'm scared

i push my my hands right in front of me

and um

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um and out comes a warbling mass

straight straight ahead of me into

our boy

okay

[Music]

um and it's um yeah what is that going

it's you know changing colors as i go

natural 20. no way

nice

[Laughter]

so i will

take the max which would be

2d8 plus 6.

16 17 18 19 20 22 points of damage

automatic

oh my gosh

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13.

22 plus 13.

okay that's 35 points

of damage and of oh of what kind of

damage oh yeah what kind of damage um

that was poison damage okay

35 points of poison damage

um all right and that took up a spell

slot correct

it did oh no

no it's above a three three or lower

yeah is

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nice okay there we go

i was kind of hoping for something

though maybe like a teleporter all the

way from the situation

so the whirlwind changes colors as it

gets going it's flashing red and white

and

um black and green and um blue and it um

settles on this like putrid

black green color before it hits

cool

okay nice um so next up is drek so he is

going to um reach down onto his belt and

um reach into a pouch and take out this

small stone um only maybe uh two inches

in diameter and he is going to chuck it

right at kellik

um so

let's see

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hold that one up

hey look that is gonna be

a 23 to hit

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um he chucks this stone at you and it

hits you right in the leg but instead of

bouncing off it sticks right to your leg

as um

as rock begins to to expand over your

legs and form over everything um and

completely consume every all every

single part of your leg from the waist

down um as you

are now

um restrained so your your movement

speed is now zero

[Music]

and any creature

has advantage on attacks against you and

you have disadvantage on any attacks

against another creature

so your lock your your locks your legs

are covered in this rock

and then he's gonna

dash up at you

[Music]

right in front of you take out his

dagger from his leg holster and swing

twice at you

that's going to be twice a 14 to hit

my dude gets

how many actions

what what what he gets a few what was

the first to hit oh i'm sorry because

that's that advantage um but that was

14.

uh 14 does not hit okay second one

is a

21.

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okay

with my shield

yeah

that is gonna be

seven points of slashing damage

as he slashes you right across your

chest

all right um next up is march

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i'm gonna still be like

slightly exhausted from

everything that just happened with the

mud that

seemingly kind of knocked us all down

is it in any way possible for me to do

what almost suggested because

it's not really

like an action but is it possible for me

to literally take out the crystals

and break them

okay you want to break both of them

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[ __ ] it yeah i do

okay oh

my god how are you choosing to do that

how are you choosing to break them

[Music]

i would like to because they're in a

little container right like if i recall

i have them in a tiny little container

yeah they're in a little box little

dwarven box i would like to i don't know

if this is possible so correct me from

wrong i would like to take them out and

put the container on the ground

open the lid

and

smash it with my regular hammer

okay yeah um cool make an attack roll

pull the lever

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uh 22. yeah okay um roll your damage

okay

uh oh wait i need

i'm just like rolling anything

so that would be 11 points of bloodshed

okay um so as you smash your warhammer

down you lift it back up and neither the

box or the crystals are there anymore as

instead you see these um white wisps of

of um

this

almost fog like substance but it's got

more form than that

begin to move away from the box and like

the sentient fog it moves around and

let's see what happens

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one of them

one of them moves around and looks like

it's searching for a body and

it's it's moving between but it can't

quite reach anyone and just sort of

fades and dissipates

no way and the other

one i'm sure [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] the

other one's gonna oh god

oh boy i'm really sorry the other one

does okay i'm gonna roll for this no

it's gonna be so much fun

you say that now i also would like to i

also would like to have a verbal

reaction at the end of this

maybe it'll fight with us

fingers crossed okay so um the other one

um whispers around

and

it moves over towards kellik

and it moves around his head i knew it i

knew it was a stranger

to my chest i'm wounded and it moves

away from kellik

moves over towards shraya

and it circles

and moves over to flynn and you can see

flynn takes a deep breath

all of this smoke is absorbed through

his nose and his ears and his eyes

and you can see him

[Music]

as his hands begin to shake

and

he will do something he's gone um

yeah march that was your action so

next up on the initiative was flynn

anyway so

um i'm gonna need you to make a uh

charisma saving throw

oh yeah uh the worst number i can uh

roll so

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c on the other side yeah i hope everyone

has enjoyed this podcast because

they're all going to die

so um

flynn you're you feel your consciousness

recede back into your body you are now

just a spectator to whatever is

happening outside you can but it's it's

almost like you're watching through a

window of what's happening

and as your consciousness recedes into

this this blackness walls begin to form

around you these stone walls

and they turn into

um these individual stones

oh man and they turn into a room that

you're familiar with with a table in the

center

with

a quill and some ink

a sword on the table

and the only difference is the door

that's in front of you

that you now know would normally lead

into this this room of combat where you

had once met a vine creature the door is

now wide open and you can see through

your own eyes what's happening

out

in the world

and you hear a voice just behind your

shoulder

as you turn around and this dark looming

figure

is standing right over you about five

feet taller than you looking directly

down and you can see this twisted smile

across its face as the entire form of

this creature is is dark and encased in

shadow but you can see these white teeth

forming the smile and these these

brilliant white eyes that have little

red dots in the middle

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and okay

you hear it say

you are just a passenger now

everyone else sees

flynn and you can see he drops down to

the ground his hands

sink into the mud and he almost takes

this this feral position

as you can see his his body's moving and

twisting in weird ways as from his

forehead um horns begin to sprout as the

the flesh and the skin around where

these horns are coming out begins to

split and bleed and come down as these

purple horns begin to protrude from his

um from his forehead

and

as he takes another deep breath he

breathes in and

as he breathes out a bit of fire comes

out of his mouth

marge

what in the hell

i was giving him

he looks to his left and his right

he sees drek in front of him

and they almost share this this knowing

look for half a moment before flynn's

body then lunges to his right and

attempts to attack shraya

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try that is gonna

18 to hit

i didn't even get to fight

okay so um he turns and as he turns his

arm

moves around and he it looks like he's

about to hit you with with just like an

open hand but as he's about halfway

through his his swing these spectral

claws form on his hand these these

purple um

claws begin to protrude from his um from

his fingers making these these spectral

these long spectral claws as he slashes

at you for

four points of slashing damage

ooh

i'm out but not quite

yeah that really messes me up uh shraya

lunges

are rather hinges backward and just

and just has this sharp shriek cry of

pain

and just

talk like

uh stumbles back a few a few feet from

the pain

okay um

now flynn as it is still your turn you

are

you see this happen and you are trapped

in this room is there anything that you

would like to do

yeah can i try and grab this can i move

like do i feel uh

the same way i normally feel or do i

feel different like do i feel like

am i i can see what's going on i'm i'm

still my own person yeah stuck in his

chair you you look down at your hands

and you sort of you move this you move

your hands around and it's almost

easier to move in a weird way as you're

not bound by any sort of physical form

it's just your spirit so

by merely a thought your hands move and

your feet move um as you're sort of

trapped in this spectral space um you're

not bound down by anything you were just

here in with in this room with the table

and the sword on the table with this

creature looming over you

very frightened

um i'm gonna

after the spooky thing behind me said

that i'm a passenger

um i'm just gonna

no and i'm gonna try and grab my sword

and attack him okay i'm just gonna try

and grab it and swing back and hit him

okay make an attack roll

a fight within a fight

come on can i roll well this time

oh that's good hold on

and it's just normal bonus right regular

sword yep regular regular regular

25 25 hits yeah real damage

okay

i always forget

oh that's good uh

12 points of piercing damage as i kind

of spin around and stab him i have like

i have like backwards in my grip i grab

it and just thrust backwards with the

sword and try and stab him he's like no

i look back towards the door um

and i'm gonna try and make a run for it

leaving the sword inside him

okay

um as you run out and um leaving the

sword inside of him you you barely even

have time to to look back but you know

you definitely planted your sword into

him um as you run towards the door

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shraya it's your turn

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i'm gonna stumble back

and say

if this is to be my end

then i will leave this world

with something to remember

and uh i'm gonna

kind of stumble back behind flynn

and uh

and then say may the cleansing

force of ildoria

strengthen and rand us all

and uh as i reach up i hoist my staff

above my head uh throw out a couple moon

seeds into the air as those start to

sprout and just turn to just this

radiant light uh as the sky gets a

little bit dimmer um and then from uh

this section of sky just opens up and

down cascades uh a

40 foot high cylinder

radiant light

moon casting okay

nice but i'm angling myself so that i

move behind flynn and i'm casting it

toward flynn kellick and

our bad guy over there

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okay yes you guys are in the line of

fire so is that that

okay so what is the

what is can you read like what the

radius of the effect is for me

uh yeah it's a five foot radius

and it's a cone

it is a it's a cylinder

yeah so it comes down from the sky

yeah so it's a five foot radius cylinder

it's so it's five feet across and forty

feet up um so you can't really angle

that to hit multiple creatures i it's

it's basically from what i'm reading um

um you can just hit one

creature with this like you just said

they were stacked on top of each other

or if they were stacked on top because

it's from sky yeah instead of it yeah

you might be able to move it too though

i don't know how that works

actually to move it or something

yeah

well what's the distance like is it on

what's the difference distance of how

far away you can it's a 120 foot range

so i'm just gonna i'm just gonna then in

that case i'm just gonna rain it down on

on uh

this guy who's causing us mayhem direct

laser place it right there drac yeah

yeah okay yeah yeah i thought it was a

cone that's my bad that's all good

that's all good um

okay

um what are you gonna need from me is

that um i believe this constitution

saving throw let me see yes yes it is

okay con saving throttle

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oh that's an 11.

yeah that does nice

nice okay what's the damage

the damage is 2d 10. so that's gonna be

so badass this column

18 uh radiant damage

nice 18.

jeez good god okay um

okay

math is difficult all right um

okay so you moved and that was your

action is there anything you want to do

as a bonus action

uh nope can you do anything okay awesome

i don't think you can

uh next up kellick you your

whole bottom half is encased in rock

you've got drac right in front of you

slashing at your chest what do you want

to do

uh i will

as i've

as i'm sort of clutching my my chest

i'll

uh pull my my my right arm across my

face i'll grab just the end of the the

cloth

uh uh wrapped to it and i'll i'll tear

off one piece

and allow that to drift in the air as i

pull it and it evaporates uh into uh or

it seems to evaporate at first it turns

into a blackened cloth and

embers

burn off at the tips of it but then the

embers

grow it and it expands and expands into

like streamers of black

uh fabric that then fly out to

uh march and try

uh and wrap around myself

and i say

and i cast aid

uh and the three of us have an

additional five uh max hp

nice okay

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nice who is that on

uh march shraya and myself okay

yeah awesome

thank you um all right and then you can

attack from like a mile away home

not giving you actually we don't trust

flynn right now

yeah that's fair speaking of oma oma uh

it's your turn what would you like to do

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um marge did you crush that

um it was a suggestion you gave and it

seemed like a good idea at the time

yeah

okay

lynn it's okay i'm gonna

back away like 15 feet behind the tree

that i'm close to um and like hide as

much as i can not action hide but just

be back there behind the tree um out of

sight out of mind and

look down at my hands and take a deep

breath and say come on do it again you

can do it again you can do it again and

um push my hands forward again and

attempt to throw another um

wurbling mass okay

um all right make that's an attack roll

right

it is

natural 20 again

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so that was um automatic with the 2d8

and 1d6

seven points of

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seven points of fire damage okay

in this case

all right um

okay

helek you see right in front of you this

dude is just getting beat to [ __ ]

but um

it looks 29 points total 29 points okay

awesome oh okay um but it is his turn

what he's gonna do what is he gonna do

no no i have to roll above oh that's

right roll above a four fifteen fifteen

okay

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is this the highest alma has ever gotten

without wild magic searching uh i think

i haven't cast spells in a couple of

[Laughter]

okay

next up um he did not appreciate that um

seeing that kellogg is still restrained

he is going to uh sort of take a

sidestep around kellik

um still staying within his his melee

range um and he's going to reach into

his belt and grab um this little disc

that he slides his hands into and pulls

almost like an accordion and looks at

oma and nightmare and extends it towards

alma

and

then as soon as the accordion um

reaches out

he smashes it back together as alma

you are pulled towards him

[Music]

all the way up right into his

melee range

as you feel yourself like your feet

slide against the mud and the ground as

like your entire body is just slid up

towards him

um there's no save for this there is no

save uh it just happened

it just

it just happened there's no to hit

there's no saying

what do you mean

[Laughter]

he is then going to with his dagger take

two swings at you

[Music]

we need to get that accordion that first

one is a 25 to hit the first time that

sentence has ever been expressed

and the second one is a 27 to hit oh my

god

this guy is jacked

so that first one let me see what that

is gonna be um

[Music]

that first one is gonna be nine points

of slashing damage

and then that second one is gonna be

eight points of slashing damage so

that's a total of 17 points of slashing

damage

oh my goodness come on

this guy needs to die come on

come on

all right um that is his turn uh next up

is march

oh my god what would you like to do

i've been trying to figure that out the

whole time

um so basically you've got you have any

right next to you and then you've got

drek um about

25 feet in front of you

how's he look

um he looks pretty beat up um not quite

bloody yet

what

let me just

i said that i said that without checking

let me see

how is he beat up and not bloody

he's yeah he's bloody he's

he's bloody you can see some blood

coming out yeah

hey hey go march go make a mistake i

said that without checking while you are

just deciding how many natural 20s

do i get to save against the restrained

um like the spell effect or like at the

end of each turn or do i have to like

try to break free to get out to a set it

is now that it's consumed your lower

half it's just rock it's not magical um

the the magical spell has dissipated

so do with that what you wrote

right um and as a caster you would you

would probably know that you would get

the sense of that okay

okay march what are you doing

um i am going to

look around

very just at

the sheer chaos happening right now

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i was gonna do something

oh god what are you doing i'm i'm gonna

i'm gonna just

it's nothing fancy i i just i just am

debating internally but what i'm going

to do is i am going to run up to shraya

and place my hands on him to get

him to to be able to do lay on hands um

how many points are you giving him

uh let's see

five

five okay

try it you gain five

hit points

uh and then i just want to face flynn

with

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my shield up basically um

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and

yeah that's pretty much all i've got

guys

um i'm just gonna just face flinch we

don't want to hurt you flint

and

that's

pretty much it [ __ ] okay

um all right next up is flynn so flynn

you're running towards this door um

and as you get to the door you're you're

about to go through as you feel like

this and again crush across the

threshold um but you feel

this like weird membrane almost like

this gel right at the door that you have

to push through so make another charisma

saving throw for me

um if i did something i don't know if

this is like what my turn's like but if

i did something to maybe

attack the thing in front of me like the

membrane would that

help the save um probably not

okay no um charisma save you says

okay

why am i looking it up i know it's a

zero

five five

you you get up to this thing and it um

it gives in just a little bit but then

it bounces back and uh you're knocked

back into the room um

was that my action um that was your

action

okay

um actually i'm sorry that is not your

action

um that charisma safe is just something

that happens so from me trying to move

through this round you are again trapped

in this room you now have a full

movement action bonus action

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oh um i have an action still i'm going

to i should have done this before but um

i'll do it now just realizing

oh i have a sheet for it i'm gonna

use my action and uh

um look i'm gonna try and cast a spell

so i'm going to

uh rub my i'm gonna rub my fingers

together as i do and then

uh i'm gonna reach into a pouch on my

side uh and pull out some silver like

silver like powder and as i'm running

like rubbing my fingers together uh you

see the the blue sigil like symbol on my

my wrist glow uh and i whistle out in a

low high

and i hold that high note and my fingers

they they begin to glow blue blue blue

and i while i'm holding that note i take

my two fingers with the dust on it and

rub it across my forehead um leaving

behind these two like glowing white

lines across my forehead

as i uh cast protection from evil and

good

myself

okay um

awesome can you please uh read me the

spell description for that sure

okay so until the spell ends one willing

creature you touch is protected against

certain types of creatures aberrations

celestials elementals faith fiends and

undead um and then it gives some

benefits so like the next time i have to

save i'll have like advantage oh it just

says

yeah um i can't be charmed or frightened

or possessed if i'm already charmed

frightened or possessed uh

i have advantage on the new saving throw

okay um they also have disadvantage on

attacks against me if they're that type

of creature okay

um um and then as a bonus action for

flavor i will summon my sword back in my

hand as i turn around and look at this

creepy

smiling spooky thing and to say all

right

bring it

that's right okay um so next round when

you um

make that saving throw you will have

advantage um because this is technically

possession

okay

good move crap um

okay then everyone else if i live to

next um looking at flynn um

these horns that are coming out of his

his forehead now fully formed um he is

going to make another lunge at shraya

shreya that is gonna be

a 19 to hit

okay and this is going to be

it's going to be 11 points of slashing

damage

oh man i'm sorry

falls to his knees and is like just

barely

like his eyes are starting to roll back

into his head and he's kind of breathing

shallow

are you still up though they're still up

yeah

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yeah

we just dumped a lot of healing in there

yeah yeah and march just marcis gave me

like healed you yeah then i'm i'm really

sorry about what's going to happen next

that's going to be another claw attack

as these horns are fully formed

might want to keep these abilities flynn

anyway finally a thread

and that's going to be a 24 to hit

oh oh yeah

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and that's going to be eight points of

slashing damage

i'm down try us down no

damn it burn down burn down

my fa my i fall face first into the mud

just like

not moving

okay

um next up is

tria i'm going to need a death saving

throw from you

no oh boy

which is just a regular d20 right

yes

i'm just so not used to doing death

what would you like to do

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oh boy

uh i look over to oma

i say

study on there girl

we'll make it throw this

and i will um

forced uh

cast uh

sparrow the dying

on shraya

yeah

okay

nice nice

and uh yeah so try you are uh stabilized

and you're no longer making death saves

and then i will uh oh and that's the

daggers

yeah great baby let's [ __ ] go

uh and then i walk daggers uh at drek

and uh and say

exco

you'll go instead

and uh i'll cast told the dead

okay

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[Applause]

and he's already hurt so that's a d12

it's all right

that is uh uh

five points of oh i hope this actually

hurts some necrotic damage

okay um you look at the five points of

necrotic damage um seems to damage him

just as normal as as any other cool so

these places where alma's attacks have

like torn at him or the poison damage

has eeked out at him though start to

singe and glow with orange

that's cool that's really cool

okay

next up oma

you have been pulled up

right next to him

i don't like being here

gaelic

steady on alma

i reach into my pocket and i pull out

the only healing potion i have and i

down it

um and i take six points of healing okay

nice nice nice um and i believe that's a

bonus action that is a bonus action to

take one ourselves

and then

i would like to

use my legs to kick up at drak and like

sling my bod swing my body up so that my

leg is wrapped around his throat

okay and then punch him okay can i do

that yeah um this technically will not

you will not technically have him

grappled um this will just be uh an

attack getting up higher i want to get

to his head

okay um make your attack rolls

okay

21 that hit

to punch him

um and that

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seven

punchy punch and i'm going to punch him

again

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um that probably doesn't image probably

does not hit that's a

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14.

uh 14. an interesting thing happens when

you try and punch him um

he sort of um

as you

[ __ ] your fist back

to punch him he sort of

recognizes exactly what you're doing and

moves preemptively um to where

you're not going to hit him and and your

punch completely misses on that second

one

okay but the first one the first one

landed yes

okay

i'm going to keep my leg tightened

around his throat okay

for flavor

and say

um let's see

he will

since you're not technically grappling

him what i'm gonna say is he is going to

reach up and throw you down to the

ground

and

take out

um another one of those small little

stones in his back pouch

and um

he is going to

let's see yeah he's going to attempt to

just place it on you

so um that is going to be

because this is at disadvantage because

it's a ranged

attack that's going to be a 16 to hit

yeah that hit okay

so um this stone also hits your leg and

as you are standing there you feel the

same effect that you could see kalec uh

as this stone um begins to wrap

everything below your waist um and your

speed is reduced to zero you have a

disadvantage on attacks and attacks

against you are made with advantage

so he's going to also take out his knife

he's going to swing twice at you oma

goodbye guys

no no that first one is a 25 to hit

god

you healed you're fine you healed six

points you're good four i was at four

for eight points of damage

and that second one

is a dirty 20 to hit

for another eight points of damage oh my

god

i'm being held up because i'm covered in

mud in stone but i am totally slumped

over on my own so like fold it in half

okay

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next up march

well i'm gonna freak out

at this i'm not going to handle that

well in any way

i would like to

look at drek and attempt to

breathe in and out and attempt to cast

command

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okay um that is what kind of wisdom what

is that a wisdom saving throw what kind

of saving throw it is a wisdom saving

throw yes

that's a five what

what one word command would you like to

say

grovel so the target falls prone and

ends its turn

okay

um all right so next time it is his turn

his entire

action and movement will be spent

dropping to the ground

that's so good yeah

um so caleb you see right in front of

you um

it hasn't happened yet he's not begun

groveling but you can see um he just

barely catches march's eye and as soon

as he does she shouts the command word

and you can see his eyes glaze over and

his body just sort of go loose um and

that is that

next up flynn i'm gonna have you make a

christmas saving throw at advantage

yeah

here we go i'm gonna roll them both at

the same time please please

natural 20. that's [ __ ] garbage

so um there's so many natural 20s

that's a lot um flynn you are about to

face off with this creature um

sword in hand

and

you hear from outside kalec yelling for

alma

and you turn around and you look through

the door

this this doorway in front of you and

you see oma's body limp while the the

lower half of her is covered in rock and

holding her up you see her completely

limp caleb reaching out for her

and you

get pull yourself together you put your

head down you dash towards the door and

you can feel this time it doesn't feel

like the gel membrane that it was before

but rather a thin pane of glass as you

shatter through it and you once again

inhabit your own body um you feel a

searing pain on your forehead um

as these horns are still protruding from

you um but you now have

full use of your body um you see shraya

laying limp in front of you as well um

having come to consciousness what would

you like to do

you said i saw alma unconscious and

kellick reaching out his hand but not

being able to because they're both like

restrained they yeah they're both

restrained so he can't actually

physically reach her that's super sad um

and i run up to drek i seeing that he is

probably the cause of all this okay and

i'm gonna attack him if i can if i have

an action i'm gonna run up there and i'm

gonna just go on full force i'm gonna

i'm gonna go so that was just he have

his extra things does he still have his

actions can he claw on snapchat yeah

no he cannot

unfortunately

the horns have stayed for at least the

time being as far as you know um but uh

yeah any sort of magical effects

surrounding him have dissipated um

breaking free of the possession was just

a free action just something that

happens so now you have your full

uh full turn

where did the did the spirit the wisp

did it come out of me and like go and

dissipate into the ground sorry

it did not no

okay nothing happened and just i just

have my own okay

uh our no are

our flanking rules a thing can i get

that doesn't matter i'm gonna attack

i don't think i have the movement for it

here we go

that's good uh 17 plus

something hold on

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okay

24. yeah 24 hits for sure and as you run

up and you see

his eyes are like glazed over his his

body is going loose um

he doesn't even seem to know that you're

running up to him

good

no one ever notices me i'm never a

threat

[Laughter]

oh that's good uh 12 points of piercing

as i run up and stab stab into him all

right okay 12 points of piercing

oh wow okay

um okay is that your action

um yeah and i don't have a bonus action

because i don't have anything that is my

that's my turn

yeah okay

all right

next up

caleb

what would you like to do

uh okay well see i'm seeing that flynn

sort of come to his senses

even though he looks bizarre

uh i i i i'll look at almost and body

i'll not let you fall here girl

i vow i swear to you

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which uh because she is at zero hit

points

uh i do it at max

uh so it was yeah great clearance

yeah so

that is uh uh it's 2d4 i'm casting at

second level that's all i have left okay

nice

let me see uh

so it's 2d four plus four so whatever

the max of that is that would be twelve

twelve points

as as um

uh alma you feel

the air around you has gone kind of

still

um it's quite peaceful

and uh amidst that

the the sort of uh whatever

little bit of light you can see is sort

of this pale blue color

and

sort of a silvery uh mist surrounds you

and gradually

that silver becomes uh

more and more orange until the mist

becomes lit like little fires uh that

swarm into your lungs like a breath of

fresh air

come to consciousness

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oh i'm stuck

i'm i can't move

eyes forward alma

eyes forward

all right oma um being sprung back to

consciousness it is now your turn what

would you like to do

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i'm stuck

i don't want to be stuck

how do i unstick

is it just like hard rock on me or what

what am i what's what's yeah so um

yeah so it uh if you want to make a

strength saving throw you can choose to

attack it you can choose to cast a spell

against it um whichever you whatever you

think would be able to get you out of

this rock

at this point it's just normal rock

i have no idea what would get out mom

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how high does it go on my body

to your waist

up to my waist so i have access to like

if i had some like weight like things in

my pockets or like around me yeah you

would have access to that

okay um

and i can look ahead yes you can

how's how's direct looking

um he looks real beat up at this point

um and

uh yeah you can see his eyes are glazed

over he looks very relaxed

[Music]

okay um

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i'm looking down at my legs and i feel

the cuts on my chest

and

i feel the blood all over my body and my

eyes kind of start to

just go bloodshot

and i'm filled with this anger and rage

and i

[Music]

will

attack him okay

with

one more um

just my hand will reach forward and

almost touch him because he's so close

to me and

one final um

ball of mass will be shot out of my hand

okay make an attack roll

that is a um 20 that hits 30 20. yeah

that hits

[Music]

okay

and that is going to be

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nine points of

lightning damage

nine points of lightning damage um

okay i'm going to have you make your

wild man's right

above a five oh my god oh my god natural

20. okay whoo i want to roll on like a

madness yeah yeah brushing it

as you read it

reset it this this

ball forms in front of you and you can

see these sparks of electricity

coming off of it it almost passes over

him and consumes him and this this ball

of lightning energy completely

encapsulates his form to where you can't

even see him anymore and as the

lightning and the magic dissipates all

that's remaining there is

scorched flesh and bones that you can

see within as he completely collapses to

the ground dead

yeah

wow

my eyes my eyes are um are just still

with that bloodshot i'm

staring down at this spot that used to

have a body and i just

i'm not going with you

and we are now out of combat

how does uh flynn look i'm i'm looking

worriedly over at his

skull

um he's obviously got horns coming out

the the

the part of his forehead where the the

flesh was actually broken the the skin

is actually kind of torn away a little

bit and it is bleeding a little bit down

onto his face

and um yeah that's that's what you see

and what's this good job guys status on

the rocks on our legs are we able to

move yet or are we still no they're

they're still they don't recede or

anything they're just rocks at this

point

i'm gonna take my dagger from from my

waist and try to

like chip away

at the rock

flynn

come over here let me have a look at you

can't yeah get out of this for the time

being

sorry guys i

i i'm sorry i got

i don't know i got taken somewhere and i

saw

a door and as i'm talking to him i'm

going to try and

chip away at

um kelly's feet like free him as i'm

talking to him um as you do that and as

alma you're chipping away after about a

minute or so you guys are able to get

yourselves free

and i'm just like and what happened as

he's chipping away at this i will be

looking to his his wounds

the second i'm free i immediately

collapsed onto the ground and just like

did bury my head

and but um

behind my knees

do you

i look over past him to see shreya still

laying on the ground um can anyone

help him i'm is anyone able to

i'm going to watch before that's why

that's happening i'm going to look at

flynn and go don't be sorry that was my

bad i thought that perhaps

he would be distracted

and but that's you know alma had a great

idea and it worked for one of them

hey

it's okay it was my fault

i look

uh bewilderedly back and forth between

alma and mark

what what was the idea exactly

the idea was

release

the spirits within the crystals and

perhaps he'd get distracted or perhaps

he'd you know

go running after them or something

i just thought that he wanted his

friends

and that if we broke the crystals he

would leave us alone

or or

or that whatever was in there that he

was after would die because we broke the

crystals

it was a 50 50 chance it was not a 50 50

chance homer

what what

exposure we had to these crystals that

didn't involve

someone being possessed by one of these

monsters

well but

the priest said that usually they can't

live outside of the crystals

but

we don't know

anything about these crystals we can't

take chances with

artifacts like this now we have nothing

we've lost our only

leverage in this entire conflict

we may as well

you freed them from their presence

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no i mean one of them is gone and one of

them is

and i'm i'm dressing the the bleeding on

flynn's head

[Music]

possibly resting inside our comrade's

soul

it would have

it would have worked

it did work

and just i wasn't

wasn't strong enough

and as i'm saying that i i start hitting

the rock on calyx feel a little harder

and like more frustrated

i mean i'm

if i was strong enough

dry would be okay

i'm just like furiously hitting it make

it then try it is still laying

unconscious on the ground by the way

while while flynn is doing this i'm

gonna go it's again flynn

not i'm you know i'm the one who chose

to actually

go through with it and smash him on the

ground and while he's doing that i will

lay out uh lay my hands on shraya and

give him the last of my lay on hands

which is three points

that's all i got okay but i'm gonna go

ahead and try you you feel this this

warmth as you are brought back to

consciousness with three hit points

i resume

consciousness

from

being in this unconscious place between

this plane and an eternal

flood of currents of air uh and light

and sparkles as i

resume form and

why am i oh

back here again

uh i almost preferred where i was before

oh well

good to see you too

guys is getting up

and like under my breath i'm kind of

just letting go there just like

if i was just better with my spells and

understood what all this meant

i would have done that i wouldn't have

done that he would have been fine i

crouched it to flynn's level

we're dealing with forces here far

behind

anything we understand

you did fine then you overcame it

you came here to help me and alma

without you

who knows what might have happened

i just need to get better i need to be

better hi i don't want to hurt anyone in

my party

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i look with calming eyes at march and

say thank you

large one

i'm gonna try and sort of like help you

you up if that's what you're trying to

do um

and then just

concentrate again back on

the rest of the party

alma are you all right

i'm really tired

i'm here girl

and i'll i will like

clutch almost head to my torso

you scared me

more than

usual i uh

i don't like him

is drex body still there

yes it is chart

oh yeah

probably don't have to deal with them

any longer

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but it's just gonna be someone else

there's always someone else

as long as uh

power like this exists there will be

those

who lose their

their hearts looking for it

um i'm going to crouch at drake's body

is he

can i check him for

other crystals uh

more of these magical doohickeys he was

thrown at us um yeah make an

investigation check for me and flynn at

this point you would you would notice

that you still have the horns if you

hadn't recognized that already

those horns are still very much there on

your forehead

they sort of start with a wide base

and then they come

and they almost do like a right angle

directly up and then sort of an angle

backwards um as they come to sharp

points above your head

what

what the heck is this

that's a 24 on the investigation

okay 24. um so looking over his body you

find

is the dagger still there from

from that he hit me with

yes that is one of the things that you

see um is this dagger find the accordion

find the accordion

um the accordion actually um along with

um a couple of the other magical items

on his person um have been completely

destroyed by the um electricity um

what was not destroyed however

was

a couple of items i mean we don't get to

do things that don't have saving throws

oh we don't get those

hey no to hit no

if you hadn't completely destroyed his

you had saving

body that would be a different it would

be different

honestly i've got the stats for the

accordion right here i was prepared to

give it to you

but uh you do get um three of these

little

um these little stones that he was

throwing at you guys um

i will

whoever wants to take those i will send

you the exact stats of those i'll take

him for now yeah you're there yeah um

you find

on his person

213 gold pieces

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58 silver pieces

and 97 copper pieces

97 97 copper

tanner's on caleb

[Music]

um what you also find that he didn't

actually get to use

um but because he rolled so high um he

didn't get to use this but you find on

his belt as well let me see

um you find a compass um

and looking over this compass you know

it's definitely some sort of magical

item um you flick open the the little um

hook that's keeping it closed on the

front um and just barely open it a

little bit and you can feel um the

beginnings of a gust of wind starting to

come out of the the compass as you then

close it um

if you want to take that i can send you

the stats of that as well i do that

sounds super rad

okay

is there anything um

i'm looking for information on

what this guy's all about what his

team is all about

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yeah any anything that

would have been paper is destroyed

yeah okay

sorry

that's okay what about is there the

dagger do i see the dab yes yeah you get

the dagger

i'll i'll toss the dagger over home

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um oma as you um inspect this dagger um

you look it over and like this

at least when you were a part of hollow

guard um and you and march were part of

hologuard this was like

having one of these was

like the goal like these things are you

always thought that these things were

super cool and and this was like

something that you eventually one day

wanted to have um but now that it's in

your possession um what what would alma

feel about towards this dagger

a bunch of anger i mean she's it's been

exclusively what's hurt her in the past

you know a couple of weeks a couple of

a couple of days um

between everybody i mean it's it now

it's just

it just causes

pain and suffering

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okay

for uh perhaps we should and i want to

take down

hologuard with it

okay

perhaps we should

leave this vicinity and go somewhere and

maybe

get some rest in or

hide in the trees or do anything we need

to find somewhere where the heck are

these things in my head and i'm like

pulling on these horns trying to pull

them out of my head it hurts like it's

it's attached to your bone it's a part

of you

kellig

help

the short one looks more like a beast

now

i think they look great flynn

it is a modest improvement in your

appearance

um i'm

not making eye contact with shraya and

like kind of

not ignoring him but just like not

trying to

i i need to study your condition flynn

and i'll i'll do my best

uh but we might need uh someone with a

bit more experience i have is

is he still in is this thing still in me

do you feel him

i close my eyes and

think about it trying

i i try and

see what's

there

as you close your eyes and you sort of

concentrate in on yourself

deep within your consciousness and deep

within your mind

you hear

almost as someone banging on a door oh

my gosh that's terrifying oh my god

oh boy

i opened my eyes again

yeah

there's something there

i'm like still like tugging on the horn

and like

yeah

i sit down

i'll do some tank and fun

do you think dolmen can help who the

dwarf your fortune tells men

my friend

how far away is that now

i i mean

it's

only a couple of hours but but i mean we

can go back there later

yeah we want to get to the warehouse

first right

it's just up ahead

yeah yeah i mean they don't hurt or

anything unless i tug on them so i guess

fine

just keep an eye on me i have some

resources and i hold up the the bag of

uh uh

cert headphone gaming that i can uh ask

for advice uh should we need it

for the time being

um maybe we go to this warehouse and and

and

find a way to get some rest

it just feels so weak

i'm kind of worried about

closing my eyes

yeah we can take shifts fun we'll keep

an eye on you son

we could tie you up yes we could use the

friendship rope to tie you up

yeah

you probably should do that

i don't know you need rest fun we all

need rest

yeah

march

what time is it i'll start walking um

it's about 1 30 in the afternoon

check out the warehouse

protection from good and evil lasts or

even good it lasts 10 minutes i don't

know if that i mean if that matters but

would that still be up um help

yeah i uh i'm gonna keep the

i the door knocking to a minimum

i just sent you something so

um yeah all right

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okay yeah after i like i'm kind of

moping towards the direction of the

warehouse that's kind of

do we want to rest now do we want to

rest there what do we want to do guys

let's get to the warehouse and set up

camp just outside it maybe you don't

want to be in this mud anymore i agree

let's go um so after you guys uh

start walking for a little bit sort of

in the direction that you guys know the

warehouse to be um after a couple

minutes the

fog begins to to part and you guys can

see a little bit further and you see um

perched atop some stilts just above the

mud and the water in the muck you guys

see a pretty large warehouse

approaching it you see

two you guys are still at a distance but

you can see two humanoid figures um just

sitting out front leaning up against

the

sort of the front uh wall of the

warehouse

i'll uh turn to shraya and say

i suspect that's the banuk tribe we've

heard so much about

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that it could be

i think they'll take kindly to us

wanting to inspect their property

there's only one way to find

out perhaps i can do an aerial round

see what we're dealing with

we do still have that potion

that'll make you a little bit more

um compelling

compelling smooth talking

oh she's saying coma you want to take a

crack at it

i don't know don't you think i've made

enough bad decisions today

and i look back at flynn with his horns

no one would ever distrust a child

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but why would i say i was going in

they are looking for alma and myself

not the banuck tribe are they

maybe

at this point anybody

maybe they're mad that we burnt their

other one uh dm what is what does the

exterior this place look like are there

other entrances are there ways around

um yeah so from this distance you can

kind of see at a three-quarters view um

you can see the front and the side um

you can see on the front it's just a

flat face with one entrance where these

two humanoid figures are sitting

and then you can see on the

right side of the building

that you are currently facing um there

is a little bit of an extension sort of

like an addition to the warehouse that

also has an additional entrance

there you see

sitting at the doorway one humanoid

figure

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do they see us yet are we

relatively obscured um you guys are

obscured you don't seem to be noticed by

them at all

there are still quite a few trees um and

you know um swamp life

in between you two so you can obscure

yourselves pretty well and it's just the

warehouse in this area correct or is

there any other kind of buildings

just the warehouse it seems

oh let's confer on this then

as i see it we have a few options right

we uh

we either

make some distance between us and and

there and

uh take a breather

uh potentially risk flynn

becoming something other than himself

or we go uh

approach them talk to them tell them the

truth

approach them talk to them tell them a

lie to try and get through or we

try to sneak past them cause a

distraction maybe alma can get in

what what exactly are we looking for

yeah well what do we know right i mean

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we wanted to go in because we wanted to

figure out what was in the prison

crystals and who had them right

but now we kind of know who made them um

right i mean they were made by the

kaldurian military

because

drak and his team were trying to

infiltrate

right but

who are the denizens of these crystals

they're some kind of unholy figures

related somehow to the red wolf

well some of them are hollow guard and

some of them are are like culti monsters

i don't know which one's inside of flynn

but

probably a culti monster

the horns would be a

indicator but i guess they could just be

a thief

yeah

it's hard to know

so so why i mean i guess what what do we

still need from this warehouse

like it sounds like so so

before we joined you when we were with

the hall guard we were sent looking for

for the same guys that they were looking

for so so hologram must have sent a

couple different teams out to do this

because i had never met drake before in

my life so

we were also sent out looking um i

didn't know what we were looking for at

the time but but we went to a farm and

and we were looking for for like this

locksmith but he was gone march and i

got attacked um

um his name was bram

and we were looking for him

and and and that's where i found my cool

lock picking set so i mean it wasn't a

total bust

um and we didn't die

and all in all it was a really simple

mission like all things considered

compared to some of the other missions

we were sent on

it's kind of pleasant actually what

stake does hologuard have in this

this whole process

i don't know because is it just money

well i have these letters

from bram

i found them in the where in his in his

little like house

um what do the letters say

i don't know i never really thought to

look at them that much i just kind of

grabbed them

but they didn't burn

and so i have these letters that we

could look at i think they were to him

and his son so it sounds like

hollow guard

sounds like drake and his team were also

sent to find him but they couldn't find

him just like we couldn't find him

his warehouse his like his basement was

all burnt up like i don't know what he

was up to but it sounds like he was up

to some

really like

explosive stuff because his whole

workspace was like

covered in soot and mess

um but he wasn't there he wasn't

anywhere and so then it sounds like drex

team went to look for his son to get

more information

and then that's when

the caldorian army

captured them and put them in crazy

crystals now i don't know exactly where

the banuk tribes comes into those like

why they have the prison crystals in

general

unless

i mean do they hold stuff for the

calderarian army sometimes like i don't

i don't know that i don't know but uh

uh we could look at the letters

well if the banook tribe is a trade

trade-in

company of sorts

and you know these would be a high value

you know

magical item so

maybe they just came

came into ownership of them through

you know some underground

trade and

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perhaps there's a way to sneak inside

the warehouse without

anyone noticing

is it worth considering that the binoc

tribe might be our allies in this that

they might want to reclaim these

crystals just as

if it's i mean even on the base

value of it being property that they

were storing it's possible

i mean the idea of selling these

crystals also troubles me of course what

we don't we need all the allies we can

get against

foes like trek

we don't have any crystals anymore

i know

[Music]

i'm sorry

[Music]

but

if nothing else we have an investment in

retrieving those that exist

put in those that escape them back in

otherwise

if it comes to a disposing of them

maybe they know how to get them out of

bodies

maybe so

or like like if we just come up to them

and be like oh my god a crystal broke

and it's in our friend now can you help

us and then we'll give you the soul also

for the

prison there's the chance that the tribe

doesn't know anything about the crystals

though also

[Music]

should we read the letters

uh what they say we meet camp

and

sit with the letters think about our

options

and those of us that needs rest can rest

i think that might be all of us sort of

look around at each of our respective

wounds and injuries it's just like early

it's too early to go to bed now just

just for a sit maybe we can sit for a

bit catch a breather

i agree

i think i'm i think i'll be okay to do

that

okay

if i start

doing weird stuff

i'll zap you

knock me out

shall zapier

dm could i uh could i stick my

staff in the ground and druid craft like

parcel of earth and dry it out from the

swampiness

yeah for sure um yes you you drive your

stuff into the ground and um

centered around your staff uh it begins

to dry up and you can see um some like

grass beginning to sprout from it um

creating a nice little

dry bed area for you guys

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this should do

if we need a moment

thanks thanks ryan

i'll uh uh set about uh as we start to

you know lay out bed rolls and

do what we can to obscure our location

and i'll set about just

uh fixing the tears in the fabric and uh

the dents in our armor with a mending

gun

[Music]

i'm gonna

roll some hit die on a short rest

while we're kind of sitting there

i'll

i think

i think i'll try and um

find a moment when maybe people are

doing stuff and i'll kind of like sit up

next to march

hey how are you doing

all right um

sorry fun i

it made sense at the time i didn't mean

to put you in this situation no you're

not you're fine you're not

not a threat just so you know

thank you

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yeah

i have ways to go

but

i'm not there yet but it's not i don't

want to talk about me um

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when we were fighting it seemed like

everyone

knew

someone

one of these mud things

but i feel like i remember you shouting

out

someone was already

dead

and if you don't want to talk about it

i totally understand but

i'm here

always here if you want to

let me know

at the reminder of this my eyes are

going to glow glaze over for several

minutes as if i'm sort of

replaying a memory over and over and

over again in my head

and i'm just going to kind of look down

at flynn and say

she is dead

and i haven't seen her since she died so

it was a shock it was just i know we all

recognized somebody there i know that

was part of the

situation and i know that was part of it

to make it so that we all were there but

you know who

who was she

who who were they to you

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she's my twin sister

and

she

died a long time ago and

along with my parents and

i should have saved her and i never

could

that was the only

you know

family i had and then i had a family in

between and i thought perhaps

hollow guard was gonna be it and then it

turned out that it was just oman

you know

seems now at this point that it's it's

[Music]

you know you guys are doing a pretty

good job of fitting the bill but

don't don't tell the others

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i like put my hand on her uh her knee

i'm sorry

it was a long time ago but

thanks fun

and for the record i really do think the

horns look pretty cool

i don't like them they're in the way

i mean if they end up staying you could

potentially stab people with them think

on the bright side think on the

positives

and at the note of that i'll kind of

playfully like

bump the horns into her shoulder

ow wow

yeah see

okay don't worry you can get some rest

and all oh i can either tie you up or i

can watch him whatever in the mention of

that i'll hold my wrists up and i'll

hold him together i'm just gonna

take out my rope and just very silently

sort of rope him up and then i'm going

to rope up his hands and then

shrug and rope up his feet

rope his arms so that they're attached

to his body

how's that flynn

comfy coffee yeah there you go just just

get on your side and i'm gonna i'm gonna

take off my uh

uh my gear really quick and take off my

jacket and put it over you and then put

my gear back on

you're a good person thanks flynn

so are you

i'm just gonna kind of just sit back and

just again just let my eyes close over

glaze over

um i'll close my eyes and try and rest

for a bit

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and i'll roll some hit dice

as you guys are

sitting there

taking your long rest

or your short rest i'm sorry

sitting there taking your short rest um

just sort of taking in the battle that

just happened

oma you are

sitting there and you're just you're

like replaying what had happened in your

head

and

you remember

i went

dropping down from the tree

and placing these strategic punches on

this

mud

creature and

you know when drek was getting all up in

your face

you know just like muscle memory just

jumping back onto him using his own

weight and size against him to to then

attack

you're

recalling all of this stuff once again

and

just thinking back and and this muscle

memory just sort of seems to have

clicked back into place

as you level up

caleb

you

are also thinking about this fight um

thinking about

you know how

in a desperate time of need um

for for a couple of your friends there

um you were able to

to reach deep within yourself and use

this magic that is not very familiar to

you but but you were able to use it

in a dire situation when you needed to

and you feel a calming voice

just kind of pipe up

in the back of your head

and it says

you're getting used to it aren't you

as the voice then fades back

into the recesses of your consciousness

as you also level up

shraya um

you're also thinking about everything

that's been happening and

you are not necessarily thinking about

the fight but thinking about this new

environment that you're in

you're looking at the swamp around you

and this is a place that you have never

been before this is a place that um

is strange and alien to you but over the

course of that fight and being able to

to sort of tap into your surroundings

and still use your magics in a

comfortable way here and and reach that

part of nature within you calling it

onto ildoria in during battle when your

friends needed it um you look around and

you sort of place your hand into the

grass that you've created beneath you

and you sort of run your fingers through

it and it's soft and

familiar now

as you realize

all the nature surrounding you is not in

fact alien to you but just another

expression that ildoria has found within

this world to convey nature to everybody

and you sort of reach that point of

peace within yourself that this is not a

strange land but this is

a land of ildoria as you yourself level

um march you are

just thinking about

oma and how oma

what just you're you're playing that

that image in your head over and over of

not just oma laying limp there with the

rock keeping her body aloft which was a

disturbing sight to see in and of itself

but also to see

this mud creature forming and

to take on

form that you know

and then to see

your party then attacking that creature

was was just a strange and sort of out

of body experience for you and you were

jostled but but now sitting here looking

around kind of

remembering

okay that was not real

that was just

something that was conjured up you sort

of form this extra layer of peace within

yourself and almost bring yourself to a

little bit closer to closure with that

as you yourself level up

flynn

you

are pretty exhausted

at this point um you've been running on

empty for the last couple minutes um

ever since that fight you are not only

physically exhausted but emotionally

exhausted as you are sitting there and

as you are trying to to regain whatever

health you can back whatever composure

you can get you're sitting there and you

your head begins to nod

as you are just so tired you can you can

barely keep your eyes open as as your

eyes are getting so heavy

and you find yourself closing your eyes

for

only a second

and you hear once again

[Music]

as you jolt yourself back awake and you

reach your hand up and you feel these

horns and this is such a

strange feeling um this is something

something is like grasping onto your

soul something that you've like never

felt before

and it's a weird

weird sense of power it's a strange and

a foreign sense of power but

power nonetheless as you feel yourself

getting a little bit stronger as you

yourself also level up

with that as you guys are

sitting there

having found these new strengths having

conquered fears and having

explored deeper within yourselves you

guys look onto the the warehouse and

wonder sort of what your next steps are

going to be

but finding that power within yourselves

all of you guys find at least some

semblance of of um strength to move

forward and with that we're gonna end

today's episode

man that is where we're gonna call it oh

my god

i had a lot of fun with that one i hope

you guys did too

oh gosh but yeah that's where we're

going to end is just going to go full

goth metal

eyeliner

but

yeah thank you all so much for listening

and we can't wait to see you all again

next week

bye bye

nerds

hi rebecca here i play omamarska on

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